US EditionU.S. senators in Ottawa urge Carney to quickly repeal digital services tax
CANADA, JUL 21 – Prime Minister Mark Carney scrapped the 3% digital services tax targeting U.S. tech firms to avoid $2 billion in retroactive charges and restart trade negotiations with the U.S.
- Late June, Prime Minister Mark Carney eliminated the digital services tax, and in a letter on July 10, Donald Trump threatened a 35 per cent tariff by Aug. 1, reviving trade talks with the U.S.
- A three per cent levy on Google, Amazon and Uber prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to call off bilateral trade talks, setting the stage for renewed negotiations.
- Visiting Canada, U.S. senators Ron Wyden, Maggie Hassan, Catherine Cortez Masto and Lisa Murkowski visited Ottawa, Wyden said `the prime minister was receptive to that,` after discussing trade issues.
- Describing the talks as `very good`, Carney noted negotiations would intensify ahead of the Aug. 1 deadline, and he said negotiations would intensify ahead of the deadline.
- Scott Bessent said talks are moving along but quality matters more than timing, while Howard Lutnick warned Canada will pay tariffs unless it opens its market.
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US Senator Asks PM Carney to ‘Quickly’ Pass Law Repealing Digital Services Tax Following Meeting
A U.S. senator says he’s asked Prime Minister Mark Carney to “move as quickly as possible” to repeal Canada’s Digital Services Tax (DST). “I asked that Canada move as quickly as possible to get a law passed in Parliament making sure that it’s gone permanently,” said U.S. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, following a July 21 meeting with Carney in Ottawa. Wyden, who visited Ottawa with a bipartisan delegation of four U.S. senators, said Carney was “r…
One U.S. senator calls on Prime Minister Mark Carney to act quickly to repeal the digital services tax.
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U.S. senators in Ottawa urge Carney to quickly repeal digital services tax
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